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MSI P55-CD53 Pro Reviews

hardocp‘s review Edit

MSI has built a great motherboard with the P55-CD53 at a great price. It is no-frills, but has everything you need to make a killer gaming rig on the cheap. A good Patriot 4GB Viper memory kit will run you about $115 for CAS 7 stuff. Couple all this with a $195 Intel Core i5-750 (The same CPU we used for benchmarking and overclocking testing.) and you can end up with a brutal gaming machine that can crunch through movie and music encodes easily.
n/a Not rated

Published on:
May 15, 2010

motherboards‘s review Edit

The Intel P55 Express chipset and the LGA-1156 CPUs are Intel’s new mainstream solution replacing the Core 2 Quad and Duo solutions earlier. As such the MSI P55-CD53 motherboard is a value board with costs of around $109 online at launch. The board does the job with performance that matches the Intel reference board. Turbo Mode does not seem to overclock the CPU as much as on the Intel Extreme board, but the combination of the OC Genie and gradual overclocking using the + button on the board I was able to hit over 3.4GHz with the Intel Core i5 750, a nearly 800MHz Overclock. Overall this motherboard is great for those wanting to get onto the new i5 bandwagon, but don’t want to pay the high price for a new setup.
8.0 Rated at:

Published on:
Sep 07, 2009

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